Why?
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well, people’s religious certainty depends on “The Buddha said it, so it is Ultimate Truth”; and also >
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vast scholarly structures rest on the belief that the whole Canon, or most/much/some of it dates to ~450 BC,
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and the field would have to start over pretty much from scratch if it’s mostly/all centuries later.
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and everyone would have to admit that they had not only been wrong, but failed to ask obvious elementary questions,
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throughout the decades of their academic careers, which was in retrospect really stupid
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I ranted about more-or-less this at https://vividness.live/2015/11/25/what-the-buddha-really-said/ … (but didn’t get into the evidence in any detail)
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Yes, now that you say it—that is surely the explanation. Disappointing…
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Buddhists generally incredibly insecure! Dissidents like me become hate figures in fora.
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